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Seneca: Selected Dialogues and Consolations: Selected Dialogues and Consolations
Seneca
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Hardback. Translator(s): Anderson, Peter J. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Seneca's dialogues -- as his epistolary essays have traditionally been knownoffer an ideal path into the philosophical thought of first-century Rome's most famous Stoic, whose compelled suicide in 65 CE (by order of his former pupil Emperor Nero) drew comparisons to the death of Socrates. Notable for, among other things, their portrait of a providential universe and defense of the life of virtue, the nine dialogues included in this volume illustrate the deeply intertwined cosmological and moral arguments of ancient Rome's chief philosophical alternative to Epicureanism and Academic Skepticism. Peter J. Anderson's new translation conveys the distinctive character of Seneca's ... Read more
Seneca's dialogues -- as his epistolary essays have traditionally been knownoffer an ideal path into the philosophical thought of first-century Rome's most famous Stoic, whose compelled suicide in 65 CE (by order of his former pupil Emperor Nero) drew comparisons to the death of Socrates. Notable for, among other things, their portrait of a providential universe and defense of the life of virtue, the nine dialogues included in this volume illustrate the deeply intertwined cosmological and moral arguments of ancient Rome's chief philosophical alternative to Epicureanism and Academic Skepticism. Peter J. Anderson's new translation conveys the distinctive character of Seneca's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9781624663697
SKU
V9781624663697
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